I first met Audre in 1984, when I was 22. She told me her grandfather had been Scottish, and that I didn't need to choose between being Scottish and being black. "You can be both. You can call yourself an Afro Scot," she said in her New York drawl. Lorde was Whitman-like in her refusal to be confined to single categories. She was large. She contained multitudes...

Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women is a stunning and long awaited collection of some of the most poignant writing by more than forty women of mixed racial heritage.Â Together they explore the concept of a mixed race identity, the fervour of belonging, the harsh reality of not belongingâ€”of grappling in two or more worlds and the final journey home.